Green Man

Another image from the Sindano Paper Mania workshop.

Ursula's Green Man

Paper Mania day with Sindano

A workshop with the Sindano Textile Group who meet each month near Bury St Edmunds working with painted newspapers, layered up with sheers, stitched and burnt back produced some lovely results - a very talented group of stitchers.

A Paper Mania workshop, to make a similar piece, is running at The Cosy Cabin on Saturday 5th July. To book places please contact the Cosy Cabin on 01284 811222
www.thecosycabin.co.uk

More Adventures with Textures

Another Texture Adventures workshop on Saturday produced some lovely results.  Base fabric, layered up with sheer organzas, machine stitched and burnt with a soldering iron. All good fun. 

Vicki - completed piece with added hand stitching and beading

Vicki detail

Dawn's- before hand stitching added

Hilary' piece - lots more stitch to add

Lily's piece.

Cosy Cabin Sampler Quilts

Christine's completed sampler quilt

The 12 week sampler course at The Cosy Cabin in Risby ended recently and here is Christine's completed quilt. 16 blocks, sashings and corner stones and a full 12" border which resulted in a full double bed sized quilt - all machine pieced and quilted. A very ambitious project for a novice quilter and the results are stunning.

A new sampler quilt course will be running at The Cosy Cabin from October 2014  www.thecosycabin.co.uk

Jackie's Sampler Quilt

Same blocks (mostly) but a different colour choice for Jackie's Sampler Quilt. Bad picture - lovely quilt.

Finer Focus quilt wins prize at Uttoxeter

I entered my first ever competition at the British Stitch and Quilt Village www.quiltandstitchvillage.com quilt show last weekend and won third place - really pleased!

The competition category was 'Lest We Forget' to commemorate 100 years since the beginning of World War One and my Finer Focus piece first made for the Out of the Fold exhibition last year fitted the theme. 

Finer Focus Triptych. Each panel is 30cm x approx 200cm. Recycled calico coffin cover. Dyed, stamped and stitched.

Material Girl goes on a Texture Adventure......

Jackie Ives came along to a 2 hour Texture Adventures workshop I ran at the Material Girls group in Bury St Edmunds last week. Jackie selected a Rowan fabric designed by Phillip Jacobs called 'Petunias' as her starting point, added several layers of sheer organzas over the top. But it is Jackie's added hand stitching and beading which has made this a lovely little piece.

Jackie also teaches at The Cosy Cabin at Risby Barns near Bury St Edmunds and you can find details of her workshops on making a Roomy Bag and Beginners Cushion at www.thecosycabin.co.uk  

Texture Adventures by Jackie Ives 6" x 6" 

 I am hoping to post more images of completed TA pieces made by the Material Girls Group soon........

Sweetie Stained Glass

We had a lovely day at the Cosy Cabin yesterday playing with coloured cellophane and sheers to make some Sweetie Stained Glass pieces ready to frame. This day workshop will run again at the Cosy Cabin www.thecosycabin.co.uk on 20th Sept 2014 or is available to book as a workshop for your group.

Sweetie Stained Glass by Tree

by Hilary

by Pam

by Jo

by Dawn

by Lucy

by Lilian